Singer/Songwriter of hugely popular Australian rock/grunge band Silverchair. He came up with the name Silverchair, from two songs from his biggest musical influences - 'silver' is a spin on 'sliver' from Nirvana and the 'chair' comes from You am I's 'Berlin Chair'. Suffering from a rare case of arthritis, which has prevented him from touring his new album, Diorama. Refuses to use pitch correction software on his music. While this technology corrects notes that are sung or played out of tune, it is Johns' personal belief that such artificial perfection diminishes music. Is a vegan

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Fun Facts About Daniel Johns

Has a dog named Sweep.

Had seven top 10 singles in the Aria charts between 1995-2001, which is more than any other Australian act in the 1990s.

In an AT&T Blue Room interview in 2007 Silverchair discussed the actual origin of their band's name. They took the name from the C.S. Lewis book entitled, "The Silver Chair". They admitted in the interview that they came up with what they thought was a good story, but realize now that it would have been much easier to just say it was from a book.

Almost fully recovered from his terrible illness, Johns has announced the tour dates for Silverchair's Diorama. 'Across the night tour' will go throughout Australia in April 2003 - Johns proved how popular he still is when all the tickets to every single show sold out on the first day! [December 2002]

Announced engagement to Natalie Imbruglia. [January 2003]

Has suffered from anorexia, and vividly laments his battle with it in his beautiful song 'Ana's song' (Open Fire)